Cool app to add in those SRT subs to your video files and use them on the PS3.

Don’t forget to actually turn on subs on the PS3 just like you would for a DVD:

http://www.calcitapp.com/AVIAddXSubs.php

http://blogs.technet.com/askds/

Check out: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/

This guy has done a great job providing the necessary printer files for printing with a modern HP printer & WP for DOS.

This being my only Nokia device, just wanted to take note, the pair code is 0000 – used by my mother & her iphone.

This article got me started: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490626.aspx

The GPO is located at: Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Network, Network Connections, and then Windows Firewall

I then used the Domain Profile section and enabled: Windows Firewall: Define port exceptions

The configuration text string I used was:

5900:TCP:10.10.1.0/24:enabled:VNC

This worked for me and got my systems creating the exception.

First a white paper with all the info needed to move the various data stores to another drive, an absolute necessity in my book.  It’s best to plan on doing these changes early so you don’t run into issues later with low or no disk space.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/maintain/movedata.mspx

Second, info on how to limit the amount of memory used by the SBS Monitoring process – use with caution, but I’ve yet to see any bad results, it just limits the process from using up way too much memory:

C:\>osql -E -S SERVERNAME\SBSMONITORING
1> sp_configure ‘show advanced options’,1
2> reconfigure with override
3> go
Configuration option ‘show advanced options’ changed from 0 to 1. Run the
RECONFIGURE statement to install.
1> sp_configure ‘max server memory’,256
2> reconfigure with override
3> go
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system
administrator.
Configuration option ‘max server memory (MB)’ changed from 2147483647 to 256.
Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install.
1> exit
C:\>

Note: Replace SERVERNAME  and the 256 setting with values to match your system – I usually keep it at 256.  I find without this setting, an SBS system left on it’s own will use a huge amount of RAM associated with this process

Third, this is really just a subset of the first white paper, but focuses only on moving Exchange databases to another location: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915

Finally, a couple of links helpful when you’re moving from a non-SBS domain to an SBS server:

How to install Small Business Server 2003 in an existing Active Directory domain – KB 884453

and a more general:

How to replace single domain controller in domain with a single domain controller? – KB 555549

Great post:

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/06/02/3065065.aspx

When you need to RD into a remote PC, but that PC doesn’t have RD enabled, here’s a quick fix – BUT BE WARNED – MESSING WITH THE REGISTRY CAN CAUSE UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOR – DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

First download PSTools to get the PSExec tool:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx

On the local PC, execute:

psexec \\COMPUTERNAME  reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0

Replace COMPUTERNAME with the name or IP address of the remote PC.

Then just do a remote restart: 

shutdown -m \\COMPUTERNAME -r

I also like to do a:

ping COMPUTERNAME -t

That will keep pinging indefinitely, so you can see when the PC restarts and comes back up.

Although you can usually count out recovering files encrypted by Windows Encrypted File System, this link has some good insight.

http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/

So this is mainly a place for me to put links and text to use when I’m on site, so I don’t have to search all over for the info.

This first post is just an observation and I don’t think there will be many more of these, but it has to do with a PC I was setting up a few weeks ago, it needed a reinstall of XP Pro and then I installed Java for a website the client needed access to.  I hadn’t installed Java in a while and I was surprised to see that they now try to get you to install OpenOffice when installing the Java plugin.  It’s bad enough how many programs try to force the Google Toolbar or Desktop down your throat – Adobe is the first that comes to mind – and there’s Quickbooks(couldn’t they come up with something more integrated & less third party).  But now to actually try installing a 4th rate application suite when you’re just looking for the plugin is crazy.  I had actually wondered why I had seen OpenOffice installed on a few different clients machines  lately – owned by people that have no idea what an Office Suite would be – which is the same reason they installed it in the first place – they just clicked Next thinking it’s what they needed.

I know it comes down to the bottom line ($), but why not just give us your products without installing a third party apps – and I know Sun is a major force behind OpenOffice, but I still see it as third party when they try to install something that has nothing to do with the plugin you need for another site.

Hope that all made sense – really just a rant to test.

Thanks.